Cacao - Ka Ka Wa – the plant from which chocolate is made. The Maya didn’t eat it with sugar so it tasted very bitter.
Calendar Round - A complex calculation of a day’s place in the interlocking Maya calendars
cenote - An underground well where water accumulates in the geological areas of karst. Often found in the the Maya region of Mexico
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| Censer from the National Gallery of Art Exhibit |
censor - A delicately carved ceremonial apparatus for burning incense.
ceremonial center - Maya cities where temples, the king’s palace and burial sites are found
codex - modern name given to the few remaining Maya bark-paper books.
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| The Grolier Codex |
comal - a flat clay or metal plate for cooking
danta - See tapir
ex - (loincloth) Cloth worn by Maya priests and kings. Usually of cotton.
glyphs - A form of writing in which pictures and symbols form syllables in a spoken language
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| Stone glyphs |
huipil - Maya blouse worn by women, usually delicately embroidered with multicolored traditional symbols
hurican - large storms attributed to Huricán, the Maya god of the storms
Itzamná - Maya creation god
karst - a type of porous stone that is found in many areas of Mexico
katun - a period of 7,200 days in the Maya Long Count
kin - one day
limestone - a kind of porous rock that is found in many areas of Mexico.
lineage - the tracing of a line of ancestral decent, important especially among royal families
loin cloth - see ex - Cloth worn by Maya priests and kings. Usually of cotton.
Long Count - A count of starting with the first day of creation according to the Maya, August 11, 3114
maize - the Maya word for corn
mano - (Spanish for hand); also the lon cylindrical stone used by Maya women and girls to grind prepared corn kernels into dough.
metate - used with the manao; the stone tablet used by Maya women and girls to grind prepared corn kernels into dough
myth - stories in which cultural religious or foundational beliefs are recounted.
scribe - a person trained to read and write with glyphs; see hieroglyphics.
stucco - a type of whitewash or plaster used throughout the Maya region to coat the walls of buildings, both interior and exterior.
tapir - a large boar like creature found in the Maya region.
tribute - a gift given to the ruler
tun - a period of 360 days in the Maya Long Count
unial - a period of 20 days in the Maya Long Count, similar to a month in our calendar
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